gistfile1.rb

# This style of code is a complete abomination and you should never do it!

my_var = if whatever?
           thing
         else
           other_thing
         end

I dislike it as well. We had a discussion over this in vim-ruby, and in the end, decided against changing the current behaviour with the hanging indent (so no, @mhfs, it's currently not possible to change this). My personal preference used to be @carlosantoniodasilva's, but I've noticed that this way the assignment clause tends to become difficult to notice. These days I just repeat the LHS.

One interesting solution @tpope came up with is this:

@foo =
  if @bar.nil?
    :one
  else
    :two
  end

This works out of the box in vim-ruby. Recently, I've started to reconsider this style myself. It's also a reasonable way to do this:

@foo ||=
  begin
    foo = 'bar'
    foo.upcase
  end